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Scientific Exaggeration Detector

This is the best exaggeration detection model from the paper "Semi-Supervised Exaggeration Detection of Health Science Press Releases" in EMNLP 2021. The model can be used to measure the causal claim strength of a scientific sentence, which can be used to compare two sentences for exaggeration in causal claim strength. Please use the following when citing this work:

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13493

@inproceedings{wright2021exaggeration,
    title={{Semi-Supervised Exaggeration Detection of Health Science Press Releases}},
    author={Dustin Wright and Isabelle Augenstein},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of EMNLP},
    publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
    year = 2021
}